Per Vognsen on Nostr: My favorite weird physical scaling limit in computing is that you can't tile a 3D ...
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"content": "My favorite weird physical scaling limit in computing is that you can't tile a 3D networked grid of computers indefinitely because you eventually create a black hole: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwarzschild_radius#Calculating_the_maximum_volume_and_radius_possible_given_a_density_before_a_black_hole_forms. Whereas you can in theory tile the computers in a 2D network indefinitely.",
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